Radiant by Brad Gooch review – art with heart
The life and untimely death of Keith Haring, whose work burst with vitality and warmth
On my radar: Alison Balsom’s cultural highlights
The classical trumpeter on a complex marital drama, an uncompromising violinist and a garden that feels like stepping back in time
Laurent de Brunhoff obituary
Author and illustrator who carried on his father Jean’s adventures of Babar in more than 40 books
‘Not a parable about death’: Raymond Briggs’s notes set record straight for The Snowman
Remarks scribbled in a Finnish copy of the much-loved book, to be featured in an exhibition on the author, reveal how the story was misunderstood
On my radar: Frank Tallis’s cultural highlights
The author and psychologist on an intimate performance of MR James’s ghost stories, a brilliant debut novel and an impossibly good pianist
Phil Baines obituary
Graphic designer whose distinctive typographic work graced Penguin book covers, museum signage and London monuments
Winchester plan for £100,000 Jane Austen statue triggers ‘Disneyfication’ fears
People at public meeting raise concerns that sculpture in cathedral grounds will attract tourists taking selfies
‘I get looks of disbelief’: the visionary women shaking up architecture worldwide
Why are talented women still so shunned by the profession? From an epic New Zealand railway to a mirrored Kyiv tower with a helipad, a new book celebrates the thrilling work of 100 groundbreakers
On my radar: James Smith of Yard Act’s cultural highlights
The singer on the power of trespassing, a life-changing film, and the one item of clothing he never takes off
‘A visual testament to Palestinian society’: inside a powerful new photography book
Timely new book Against Erasure shows the ‘breadth and richness’ of Palestine before the Nakba in 1948 when 750,000 people were forced from their homes
The big picture: teenage girls at play in east London
British photographer Suki Dhanda explored young Muslims developing their own identities in the early days after 9/11
Rare Jungle Book painting to go on show at Kipling’s home
The Return of the Buffalo Herd, by teenage prodigies Edward and Charles Detmold, can be seen at Bateman’s after conservation
‘They ask only not to be forgotten’: Barry Lewis’s heartbreaking portraits of the Soviet Union’s gulag survivors
Taken in 1991, during the glasnost era, these extraordinary photographs are a powerful reminder of one of the darkest periods in Soviet history
On my radar: Dave Eggers’s cultural highlights
The American author on whale watching, Kehinde Wiley’s hypnotic paintings and an indispensable Canadian singer-songwriter
Harry Brockway obituary
Other lives: Artist specialising in stone carving, letter cutting and wood engraving whose illustrations were commissioned by Penguin and the Folio Society